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From Desiring God: “Will Effeminacy Keep Anyone from Heaven?” This article is excellent. Men and woman are not just distinct biologically, but are designed to have distinctly male and female mannerism. “Androgyny and effeminacy flatten vital sex expressions between men and women. But God made us distinctly male and female, and gave Eve to Adam
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Tim Challies views Rome through Protestant eyes. John Piper on Gospel-centered preaching. The man we need right now. Spurgeon on the need for Christian schools. Julie Roys appears on the Mortification of Spin to discuss her investigative report on James MacDonald and Harvest Bible Chapel.
Vaping, James MacDonald, human trafficking in Canada, and feminism…
On Thursday, December 6, 2018, our church was invited by the City of Kitchener to sing, perform, and share the Christmas message on the main event stage at the Christkindl Market festival in front of City Hall. This was our second year in a row taking part in this annual Christmas event. The event organizers
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I close with what disquiets me most. It is much more than a concern over theological phraseology and doctrinal precision, as much as I’m burdened about all that. What disquiets me most is a great source of personal grief, and that personal grief is pastoral grief specifically. I am disheartened by the dearth of an urgent expression of pastoral alarm for those who’ve been taken captive by Bruxyianity. There are people who actually believe what Bruxy Cavey says about the Bible, about the atonement, and about all the other nonsense he teaches.
I put a sledgehammer through my basement wall. Then I pounded a pry-bar through the studs and clawed the nails out. It was all to gut my basement last winter. I was re-doing a section of the basement myself. I saved some money by not hiring someone, and the end-product was a room much more
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Now being part way through a sermon series on Christ’s Sermon on the Mount, I found myself in Matthew 5:31-32 a few Sundays ago. In that text our Lord teaches on divorce and remarriage. I taught that our Lord allows for divorce under only exceptional circumstances upon which I elaborated, but even so divorce is
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Today is momentous because today marijuana is now legal in all ten provinces and three territories. The Great White North is covered in a green haze, and that green haze smells sweet and skunky. Marijuana’s decriminalization, in this case, has at least two immediate consequences. First, legalizing it inescapably destigmatizes it. The second consequence is
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